broken record

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broken record

A person or thing that repeats itself over and over again. Likened to vinyl records that when severely scratched (i.e., "broken") can loop over the same recorded segment endlessly. I feel like a broken record having to tell you this each day, but please clean your room!

Sam Ritz, Al Partanen, and Jessica Swim arrived with only a half hour left in the jam, prompting some drunken idiot to go into broken record mode: "But wait these guys just arrived, but wait these guys just arrived, but wait these guys just arrived.

Summary: London [UK], Dec 26 (ANI): Tottenham Hotspur's striker Harry Kane has broken records to become the top scorer in a calendar year to finish ahead of Barcelona star Lionel Messi as the leading man for club and country.

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